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Very nice Tom.

Great job guys.

Jason, My son and I made it up for the Thursday night bite. We went 1 for 2, with the 1 being 13 pounds coming in on a Moonshine Brook Trout. It came in 80' out in front of the Light House. The one we lost was half way between the Island Light house and the Coast Gard Station. We came back Saturday AM to try and take in more of that great ares you have. Sat. we where only 1 for 1 with a short fat king. The fog made thing a bit hectic. We took a ride out and under the bridge. I got a bunch of pics, but my camera some how got lost from the boat to the truck. If you hear of any one that may have found it could you let me know? It's a professional Cannon 10 D SLR with a high dollar lens.

Thanks Mike, my list was getting long.

What the heck are you talking about???? Where is this report for, the Berring Sea???????:crazy:

I copied this from the NOAA site for South Haven to Grand Haven back on the date it was posted.

Nice Job Mike. The conditions where challenging to say the least.

The last few times out we have been loosing up the drag to let the dipsey out instead to free spooling with the clicker on. That way the dipsey is pulling on the rod and tracking away from the boat. It takes a little longer but I haven't had any really good tangles lately. Opps! Maybe I should not have said that??

I have had very good results doing it like this. Like Tom says , it takes a bit longer but, they pull to the side as going out.

Nice Job Don and Crew.

Good job Jay in those bad conditions.

Nice job Andy, and nice meeting you at the docks.

Nice Job guys under some very tough conditions.

I've been using the Walker mags on my wire dive and, i really like them. On my high diver I got some mag rings for the standard dippseys and I have had no tangles since. The hook up percentage has gone way up since switching over to th siggs flys with there owner hooks.

Saturday the wind layed down after 6pm so we motored out to 120' and set up. With the seas not to bad we ran 4 divers 4 riggers a full core and a 250 copper.

The fish where very hungry as we landed 8 and knocked one off at the net. (a very big one at that 18+). The full core took a nice Steelhead with the Blue Flounder Pounder. Wire diver back 280' (at 300 back we where hitting the bottom in 130 fow) with the Blue flasher and a Siggs fly was by far the best set up for the big kings. It took these fish

As well as the Big boy that my 1st mate was nice enough to knock off with the net. This fish pulled off 150' of wire.

We got a few small kings on the assortment of Moon shine spoons as dark set in (details are kinda sketchy). Sunday am was not nice to us. My 19' Crestliner was bobbing around like a Ping Pong Ball in a hurricane. Boat control was not easy as one tangle after another really beat us up. Congrats to the guys that did good! We ended sunday 3 for 9 with only 2 small Kings and a Greaser.

Very Nice S.Q. How big did the big one go? I see in the Detour Salmonfest http://www.detourvillage.com/ a fish over 20 was landed. Things may be looking up.

Nice job guys. i bet the kids had fun.

Welcome, Snaggle. I love walleye fishing also but, there's nothing the pull of a nice King.

Paulywood says it perfectly.

If or when you use Lead/Copper put it on a Church board and get it off to the side. It likes to tangle with the rigger fish if it's run down the pike. They really excel when the fish are shallow in the water column (down 25-45')

Nice job guys on the big Kings!

Nice Job Jim.

Nice job Witt. What do you do for steering when you both of you are fighting a fish? Bungee cord?

The bungee trick works great.

My down speed will often be .8 to 1.0 slower than my sog. I think my cannon speed and temp reads slow. If I went 2.5 with it, I would not be able to hold the dippseys from releasing.

Nice job Jim. The Outdorsman in Jenison sells Owner hooks by the 25 or 50 pack. It's a great investment. They really hold the fish on.

Boltman, welcome. Our best rig by far this wear hes been the divers with a flasher/fly combo. From the dippsey use a 6-10' leader to the flasher and a 22" lead to the fly. White/green flasher and a Sigs Mountain Dew fly is killer.

The coyote flasher in this pic has worked wonders but, they are hard to find.

Ken.

Nice job on getting some fish for your out of town friend Mark.

I'm going to give it a fair chance this weekend off the low rigger back 30-50'

thanks for the reply.